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TIL The Spanish flue of 1918 didn't start at Spain. It was called that because Spain was the 1st country who talked about it publicly with the other countries censoring their news due to their participation in WW1 [Deleted]

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a8LOb TIL The Spanish were the first European settlers in the Florida Keys, and upon unearthing a burial mound on one of the southernmost keys, they named it Caya Hueso, Bone Island, a name later Anglicized into Key West. Spain officially relinquished control of Florida to the United States in 1821.
Jnbv TIL Mark Twain was a confederate solider.
b9vWE TIL that there exists a dying Mexican language called Ayapenaco. The only two people left in the world that can speak it are a pair of elderly men who refused to talk to each other until 2014 when they decided to make amends to try to prevent the language from going extinct.
VMgwG TIL that Flea, bassist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, keeps over 200,000 bees in his backyard, which he calls "Flea's Bees"
0deMp TIL there are IKEA stores in China, even as China is the source of cheap furniture the world over.